The outstanding mid-nineteenth-century reports on the British Museum, Public Libraries and the Schools of Design testify to a vigorous parliamentary policy of making a knowledge of literature and the arts more readily accessible to all sections of the community. The two principal existing institutions wholly concerned with the fine arts, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy were the subjects respectively of Select Committee and Royal Commission investigations (IUP volumes Fine Arts 4 and 5).
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